From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: EmacsW32 invocation options Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 22:14:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4638F119.5000701@gmail.com> References: <59osrdF2m97hgU1@mid.individual.net> <46383B57.6050508@gmail.com> <463891EE.60804@gmail.com> <4638A23F.9060504@gmail.com> <4638AAD6.8070905@gmail.com> <4638CAFE.3080608@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178136910 4450 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2007 20:15:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 20:15:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 02 22:15:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HjLE9-0001jL-RR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 22:15:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjLKb-00015F-0p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 16:21:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjLJq-0000un-Mm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 16:20:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjLJp-0000tI-7r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 16:20:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjLJp-0000tE-3R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 16:20:57 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HjLDM-0003Hj-00; Wed, 02 May 2007 16:14:16 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:64995 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HjLDJ-0005Un-9B; Wed, 02 May 2007 22:14:14 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070326 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000737-2, 2007-04-30), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HjLDJ-0005Un-9B. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1HjLDJ-0005Un-9B c57570e78b2e5f964e2171114c3a73cd X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43528 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero wrote: > On 5/2/07, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > >> I do not take pride in it. I am just glad it is working. > > The feeling I get reading your webpage is that you take pride in > detecting (presumed) shortcomings of the standard distribution and > offering (presumed) fixes for them. I dislike it because I don't agree > with many of the supposed shortcomings you point out, and because I > think you're *taking* options from the user (at least, from the novice > user). Pre-packaged releases with lots of goodies stink of patronizing > to me. What are you actually trying to do, Juanma? Why did you write this? >> And some of those things that you call ad-hoc solutions are just that I >> follow the Window's API. > > That means nothing. There are a gazillion ways to use them. Now you have just left logical reasoning. I see no reason to respond to that.